AngularJS – making the switch

“Superheroic” is how the AngularJS team at Google describe their framework – not an inaccurate description judging by its legions of fans and developers.

By eliminating a lot of the complexity usually involved with building single page web applications, AngularJS has become one of the most widely used development frameworks around. In fact, it’s fast becoming the de facto method for rendering dynamic content in a static webpage.

So what about those of us who haven’t joined the bandwagon? What’s involved in switching an existing web application to the AngularJS framework?

KeyLines is a JavaScript SDK for building web applications for data visualization.

A few customers have asked us whether we plan to ‘support’ AngularJS in the future, or how a KeyLines application would fit into a wider AngularJS application, so we built a KeyLines Angular Directive.